Infinite Immigrants in a World of Infinite Intelligence
Is it sustainable to import people straight into the social welfare line?
The Australian Government is running the biggest property ponzi scheme in the history of this country.
They’ve relentlessly pursued, hacked, and lied their way to what is effectively an open borders policy.
1.3 million immigrants entered Australia’s borders over the past 3 years.
Stop and think about that for a moment.
That’s almost the entire population of Adelaide.
Have we built an Adelaide’s worth of houses, hospitals, schools, roads, healthcare and water infrastructure to accommodate them?
No.
Not even close.
Which means their open borders policy goes beyond incompetence.
Anyone who tells you it’s a supply problem is a bona fide moron who you should immediately mute so you don’t have the misfortune of reading their brain dead takes on any other issue in the future.
Supply only ever exists relative to demand.
And there has been a torrential flood of demand, relative to very little supply.
The government is grossly negligent.
They are directly responsible for the housing crisis and the massive increase in homelessness that has ensued.
They made an intentional decision to put the wants and needs of non-Australians above Australians.
That’s not only undemocratic, it’s corrupt.
It’s corrupt for two obvious reasons:
People pay taxes to be represented in this country. All surveys indicate that the majority of people do not support unrestricted mass immigration.
Politicians benefit disproportionately from it:
Immigration boosts absolute GDP because more people means more consumers, so politicians can (falsely) claim they are stewards of a great economy.
Politicians are, on average, 45 years old. This demographic owns significantly more property than the younger demographic. When you import millions of immigrants, you turbo charge demand relative to supply, leading to higher rents and also higher house prices. Rents go up because there’s more people needing shelter, and house prices go up because more people feel pressured to escape a catastrophic rental crisis - deciding to buy instead.
It’s corrupt.
None of our representatives want to represent anyone but themselves.
They’ve broken the implicit obligation democracy is founded on - a willingness to negotiate and represent in good faith the people who vote for you.
And we are all paying dearly for their corruption.
It would be bad enough if this was happening in isolation, but it’s not.
Whilst all this is going on, the tech world has been making exponential improvements on the road to artificial general intelligence (AGI): an AI that is intelligent enough to perform the role of any human in the labour force (initially digital, then eventually physical too when robotics catches up).
The pace of improvement here has been so rapid, that if you entered a coma when ChatGPT first came out at the end of 2022 and only just woke up today, you would be shocked.
Many AI researchers now believe that AGI will be achieved sometime within the next 2-5 years.
So I would like to propose a question to our astute representatives:
What happens when infinite immigrants enter a world of infinite intelligence?
Thinking in limits is useful, because it helps to test the boundary conditions upon which order breaks down and chaos ensues.
The Australian government has made up all sorts of lies to justify bringing in ‘infinite immigrants’: skills shortages, ‘we are a country of immigrants’, blah blah blah.
All lies.
Anyway, let’s take them at face value for a moment:
The ‘skills crisis’.
Ahh yeah, so, about that…
In a world of infinite intelligence, you have no skills crisis.
By definition.
AGI is a general purpose technology: it will be able to do any task a human can perform, except much faster, cheaper and smarter.
A world of AGI is a world of infinite intelligence.
It will be abundant, and so cheap it may as well be free.
So what’s the purpose of importing infinite immigrants into a world of infinite intelligence?
GDP growth - one of the reasons politicians love mass immigration - won’t even come from immigration if we achieve AGI in 2-5 years.
It will come from compute expenditure: calls to AI models running in data centres.
This isn’t some far fetched, sci-fi prediction.
It is what will happen if AGI is achieved.
If intelligence is just a function of how much money you’re willing to spend on compute to run AI models, then infinite immigration becomes a function of how much money you want to spend on social welfare.
Because you’ve imported millions of immigrants into a world where they won’t have a job.
Why would anyone hire an immigrant when they can hire an AI agent that costs 1000x less, doesn’t complain, doesn’t need a visa, doesn’t sleep, and executes every task perfectly, every time, 1000x faster and cheaper?
When infinite immigrants enter a world of infinite intelligence, the immigrants will be imported straight off the plane into the social welfare line.
They will become a drain on this country’s budget.
It will be impossible to sustain this.
That’s the financial reality awaiting us.
The funniest part is, AI actually somewhat aligns politician’s own selfish interests: if GDP growth disproportionately comes from compute expenditure to AIs instead of hiring humans, they might actually stop mass immigration: the growth (and taxes) they rely on can come from technology instead.
But by the time they have this realisation it will be too late.
Because there will be a deeper problem lurking.
Millions of people, recently imported, who don’t share the same cultural values as us, sitting around unemployed, doing nothing all day.
That’s a recipe for severe social unrest.
When infinite immigrants enter a world of infinite intelligence, the system breaks.
